Ridiculous WalMart Commercial (OT)

jmcquown said:

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people and
about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly amazed they
would pick *now* to air a commercial like this!

I don't know why. We gotta keep all those prices at rock bottom so
all the illegal aliens can afford to buy stuff and pay sales taxes.
Don't worry about them getting a good education and learning English.
Sears just labeled everything they sell in Spanish so the illegals
won't have to bother assimulating into our culture. The power elite
has already sold off this country to the hightest bidder. What little
is left of the once great middle class in the USA can pretty much bend
over and kiss its dwindling collective ass goodbye.

nb

jmcquown said:

I saw the most ridiculous WalMart commercial last night. Maybe you've seen
it. It opens with two Chinese guys standing in front of an assembly line
producing some sort of small electronic gadget, talking away (in Chinese).
The gadgets go along the conveyor belt and eventually wind up in individual
boxes. Pan camera to the right to show a couple with a young boy and a
*WalMart* shopping cart standing next to the conveyor belt as the boy plucks
one of the boxes off the belt and puts it in their cart. One big happy
family!

I haven't noticed that one, but I guess they were trying to parody the
Florida orange juice commercials.

Quoted message said:

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people and
about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly amazed they
would pick *now* to air a commercial like this!

Clueless advertising department?

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jmcquown said:

I saw the most ridiculous WalMart commercial last night. Maybe you've
seen it. It opens with two Chinese guys standing in front of an
assembly line producing some sort of small electronic gadget, talking
away (in Chinese). The gadgets go along the conveyor belt and eventually
wind up in individual boxes. Pan camera to the right to show a couple
with a young boy and a *WalMart* shopping cart standing next to the
conveyor belt as the boy plucks one of the boxes off the belt and puts
it in their cart. One big happy family!

I haven't noticed that one, but I guess they were trying to parody the
Florida orange juice commercials.

Quoted message said:

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people and
about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly amazed
they would pick *now* to air a commercial like this!

Clueless advertising department?

Ahh... you mean the Kreatives!??

Haven't seen the commercial yet.

Andy

jmcquown said:

I saw the most ridiculous WalMart commercial last night. Maybe you've seen
it. It opens with two Chinese guys standing in front of an assembly line
producing some sort of small electronic gadget, talking away (in Chinese).
The gadgets go along the conveyor belt and eventually wind up in individual
boxes. Pan camera to the right to show a couple with a young boy and a
*WalMart* shopping cart standing next to the conveyor belt as the boy plucks
one of the boxes off the belt and puts it in their cart. One big happy
family!

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people and
about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly amazed they
would pick *now* to air a commercial like this!

But Jill..... it is entirely appropriate that WalMart show a Chinese
assembly lane, since that is where most of their products come from. It is
rare to find domestic products in that store, and that is the reason why I
refuse to shop there.
Thanks to them lowballing everything, it is forcing their competitors to do
the same. Last year I went out shopping for a white dress shirt. I checked
them all to see where they were manufactured, and made a point of telling
the sales staff I would not by shirts from China. I went to at least a
half dozen stores before I found a Canadian made shirt, and it wasn't that
much more expensive. I confess to having bout several pairs of happening
pants at a local discount store. At $4.95 a pair it seemed like a good idea
to buy several. One pair ripped the first time I wore them. The second
pair lasted a week, and the third pair lasted about two days. $15 for three
pairs of pants. I ended up getting an American made pair for $30 and they
are still in good shape after much wearing over the last year.

jmcquown said:

I saw the most ridiculous WalMart commercial last night. Maybe
you've seen it. It opens with two Chinese guys standing in front of
an assembly line producing some sort of small electronic gadget,
talking away (in Chinese). The gadgets go along the conveyor belt
and eventually wind up in individual boxes. Pan camera to the right
to show a couple with a young boy and a *WalMart* shopping cart
standing next to the conveyor belt as the boy plucks one of the boxes
off the belt and puts it in their cart. One big happy family!

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people
and about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly
amazed they would pick now to air a commercial like this!

My guess: This was all scheduled before the poisoning scandal broke.

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Dave Smith said:

the same. Last year I went out shopping for a white dress shirt. I checked
them all to see where they were manufactured, and made a point of telling
the sales staff I would not by shirts from China. I went to at least a
half dozen stores before I found a Canadian made shirt, and it wasn't that
much more expensive.

Canadians are weird that way. I haven't spent much time in Canada, but
my wife and I had a short visit there a few years ago. We went to the
liquor store and I bought some Budweiser beer. It had the familiar red
and white can. When I looked at the fine print, though, it said "made
in Canada under license". It didn't taste quite the same, although that
was fine, since, of course, it tasted *better*. We went to Safeway.
Half of the produce had little signs that said "grown in Canada". The
other half had no signs.

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notbob said:

Sears just labeled everything they sell in Spanish so the illegals

Not everybody who reads Spanish is an illegal. Not all illegals speak
Spanish.

notbob said:

jmcquown said:

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people and
about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly amazed they
would pick *now* to air a commercial like this!

I don't know why. We gotta keep all those prices at rock bottom so
all the illegal aliens can afford to buy stuff and pay sales taxes.
Don't worry about them getting a good education and learning English.
Sears just labeled everything they sell in Spanish so the illegals
won't have to bother assimulating into our culture. The power elite
has already sold off this country to the hightest bidder. What little
is left of the once great middle class in the USA can pretty much bend
over and kiss its dwindling collective ass goodbye.

Do you have any suggestions as to what we should DO about the above?
That was not a rhetorical question.
I have mixed feelings about the Mexican invasion because I adore
Mexican food, and not gringo Mexican, but the stuff sold at taquerias,
intended mostly for Mexicans.

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nb

--Bryan

BOBOBOnoBO® said:

Do you have any suggestions as to what we should DO about the above?
That was not a rhetorical question.

Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It's too late anyway. You all will be
speaking Mexican in a few decades and I'll be long gone. Have fun.

nb

And....How does that make Canadians weird?

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Dave Smith said:

the same. Last year I went out shopping for a white dress shirt. I
checked
them all to see where they were manufactured, and made a point of telling
the sales staff I would not by shirts from China. I went to at least a
half dozen stores before I found a Canadian made shirt, and it wasn't
that
much more expensive.

Canadians are weird that way. I haven't spent much time in Canada, but
my wife and I had a short visit there a few years ago. We went to the
liquor store and I bought some Budweiser beer. It had the familiar red
and white can. When I looked at the fine print, though, it said "made
in Canada under license". It didn't taste quite the same, although that
was fine, since, of course, it tasted *better*. We went to Safeway.
Half of the produce had little signs that said "grown in Canada". The
other half had no signs.

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[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It's too late anyway. You all will be
speaking Mexican in a few decades and I'll be long gone. Have fun.

So if the Mexicans speak Mexican, and Americans speak American, and all
the labels are in english and spanish, who can read them?
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Quoted message said:

Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It's too late anyway. You all will be
speaking Mexican in a few decades and I'll be long gone. Have fun.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/mexicoflag.asp

jmcquown said:

I saw the most ridiculous WalMart commercial last night. Maybe you've seen
it. It opens with two Chinese guys standing in front of an assembly line
producing some sort of small electronic gadget, talking away (in Chinese).
The gadgets go along the conveyor belt and eventually wind up in individual
boxes. Pan camera to the right to show a couple with a young boy and a
*WalMart* shopping cart standing next to the conveyor belt as the boy plucks
one of the boxes off the belt and puts it in their cart. One big happy
family!

With all the recent flack about Chinese ingredients poisoning people and
about WalMart selling so much stuff made in China I was utterly amazed they
would pick *now* to air a commercial like this!

Jill

Chances are WalMart is counting on the majority of consumers being
blissfully ignorant of reality. The latest scandal is about child
labour and the promise of a clean-up of that particular mess because of
the forthcoming Beijing Olympics:

excerpt:

"China vows child labour crackdown

Government-controlled newspapers report shocking stories of abuse,
enslavement
Jun 14, 2007 04:30 AM
Bill Schiller
ASIA BUREAU

BEIJING–As Beijing Olympic officials met yesterday with Olympic-licensed
firms accused of violating Chinese labour laws – including the
employment of 12-year-olds – more horror stories of child labour,
unrelated to the Games, began to emerge.

Despite strong legislation prohibiting kids from working until the age
of 16, the allegations have cast a harsh spotlight on a serious problem
China has yet to wrestle to the ground.

Yesterday, however, Chen Feng, deputy director of marketing for
Beijing's organizing committee, vowed China would move swiftly against
violators if the allegations turned out to be true.

"If we find any problems, we will severely punish those violators," Chen
told reporters.

This week the U.K.-based workers group Playfair, in a 30-page report
with photos, said it had found four factories in southeast China where
labour violations were rife, including child labour, low wages, poor
safety and forced overtime."

Rest of the article here:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/225236

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Quoted message said:

Canadians are weird that way. I haven't spent much time in Canada, but
my wife and I had a short visit there a few years ago. We went to the
liquor store and I bought some Budweiser beer. It had the familiar red
and white can. When I looked at the fine print, though, it said "made
in Canada under license". It didn't taste quite the same, although that
was fine, since, of course, it tasted *better*. We went to Safeway.
Half of the produce had little signs that said "grown in Canada". The
other half had no signs.

You went to Canada and bought Budweiser?

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Elder said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It's too late anyway. You all will be
speaking Mexican in a few decades and I'll be long gone. Have fun.

So if the Mexicans speak Mexican, and Americans speak American, and all
the labels are in english and spanish, who can read them?

The Americans will just read the Bible. At least that's written in
American, isn't it?

:-(

Not to mention that Mexico is part of North America, so aren't they
Americans?

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Not to mention that Mexico is part of North America, so aren't they
Americans?

No. They're North Americans, or Mexicans.

nancy

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Quoted message said:

Canadians are weird that way. I haven't spent much time in Canada, but
my wife and I had a short visit there a few years ago. We went to the
liquor store and I bought some Budweiser beer. It had the familiar red
and white can. When I looked at the fine print, though, it said "made
in Canada under license". It didn't taste quite the same, although that
was fine, since, of course, it tasted *better*. We went to Safeway.
Half of the produce had little signs that said "grown in Canada". The
other half had no signs.

You went to Canada and bought Budweiser?

I bought some others, but didn't think they needed comment.

Dan Abel said:

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notbob said:

Sears just labeled everything they sell in Spanish so the illegals

Not everybody who reads Spanish is an illegal. Not all illegals speak
Spanish.

plus, what's the sweat off anyone's balls if the label has both
english and spanish? are you denied some fine english prose if some
yabbo is informed not to use his radio in the bathtub in spanish as
well?

in the case of wal-mart, just be glad it's not all in chinese.

your pal,
blake

notbob said:

BOBOBOnoBO® said:

Do you have any suggestions as to what we should DO about the above?
That was not a rhetorical question.

Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It's too late anyway. You all will be
speaking Mexican in a few decades and I'll be long gone. Have fun.

nb

see ya, [censored].

your pal,
blake